high tech

noun

variants or less commonly hi-tech
1
2
: a style of interior design featuring industrial products, materials, or designs
high-tech adjective
or less commonly hi-tech

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Located on a sprawling 46-acre Union County campus, the Summit headquarters is a hub for scientists, research and development, marketing, artificial intelligence, high tech and data, legal, communications and operation. Lori Comstock, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025 Nvidia, Intel, Qualcomm and AMD subscribe to Creative Strategies research reports along with many other high tech companies around the world. Tim Bajarin, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025 The Foxconn facility was to be a high tech manufacturing operatio -- far different from the data centers which are huge buildings filled with computer servers. Ricardo Torres, jsonline.com, 17 Sep. 2025 In Massachusetts, one of the traditional strengths of the state’s economy — high-paying jobs in life science, high tech and research — has been sluggish in the past two years, said Mark Melnik, director of economic and public policy research at a University of Massachusetts Amherst institute. Preston Fore, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for high tech

Word History

First Known Use

1969, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of high tech was in 1969

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“High tech.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/high%20tech. Accessed 27 Sep. 2025.

Kids Definition

high-tech

adjective
-ˌtek
: of or relating to high technology
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